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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rachel Clun

‘I lost 90 per cent of my friends to my diagnosis’: The isolating reality of ‘cancer ghosting’

Cengi Sen said he was ghosted by many friends following his cancer diagnosis - (Supplied/Cengi Sen)

Being diagnosed with cancer at 24 was something Cengi Sen had prepared himself for, after discovering he had swollen lymph nodes. But he wasn’t prepared for the “cancer ghosting” from his friends that followed.

“I did have a few very kind friends who reached out, who kept in frequent contact, but I lost 90 per cent of my friends to my cancer diagnosis,” he told The Independent.

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